A man working at a petrol station was honored by his company after he returned a customer's missing wallet. Sarath Gopan was able to find the wallet which had $5,445.. On their personal Twitter account, ENOC - the company running the petrol station - posted a tweet saying that “Sarath’s honesty and integrity reflect our values and principles, and we thank him for embodying them.” Recently, a Nepalese employee who works at a Starbucks in Dubai was also honored by the Dubai ...

Israeli police reopened al-Aqsa mosque gates after hours of closure on Friday, when clashes erupted with Palestinian worshippers following midday prayers. Muslim worshippers returned to the site around four hours after they were forced out by police using tear gas. Earlier, the waqf, the religious authority that runs the mosque, confirmed the gates were closed after clashes broke out, as AFP reported. Reuters news agency reported that masked youth cracked fireworks in the direction of Israeli ...

A worker at a money transfer company has been arrested in the UAE after he was caught stealing a piece of diamond worth $20 million. According to reports, the theft took place on May 25. Gulf News reported that the Dubai Police inspectors analyzed 8,620 hours of CCTV footage and questioned 120 people in order to reach the suspect after he had shipped the diamond to Sri Lanka by sea. Police said that the Asian suspect gave the diamond to his relative by hiding it in a sports shoe box. ...

Clashes erupted between farmers and local police during a protest over water scarcity in Kamarej village, close to Kazeroon city in Iran’s Fars province south of the Islamic Republic on Thursday. A social affairs aide in the local police said one person was killed and many others were injured when the police fired in the air in an attempt to disperse the angry crowds. The source added that among the injured were a number of police members. Iran state news agency IRNA said the clashes ...

An Iraqi policeman in a Reuters photograph from Sunday when a fire erupted at a ballot box warehouse in Iraq had appeared in a photo on June 6 near Baghdad’s Sadr City district where an explosion killed at least 18 and injured dozens others. His presence in the locations of the incidents led many to speculate that he had something to do with them. Social media pages went abuzz by Monday morning with many claiming he was a terrorist. However, the policeman, identified as Walid Abed ...

Paris police on Monday began evacuating around 1,000 migrants from two makeshift camps in the city, five days after another 1,000 were taken to temporary lodgings. The operation began at dawn at a camp along the Canal St Martin northeast of the city centre where an estimated 550 mainly Afghan migrants were staying, an AFP reporter said. Another 450 people were being evacuated from a camp to the north at Porte de la Chapelle, police and city authorities said in a joint statement. The St Martin ...

A gunman killed three people, including two police officers, in the Belgian city of Liege on Tuesday, a city official said. Police later killed the attacker, and other officers were wounded in the shooting. The motive for the attack wasn't immediately clear. State broadcaster RTBF reported that it could be terror-related, citing unnamed police and fire officials. Belgium's prime minister couldn't confirm the report. “Beyond the attacker, who was shot, there are three dead, two police ...

Dubai police have arrested two teenage boys after a video went viral on social media showing them jumping off a bridge and into the Dubai Canal. The police had launched a full scale manhunt for the teenagers, who were classified as Emirati because of the traditional clothing one was wearing and the dialect they were speaking in, officer Abdullah Khadem bin Soroor told local media. In the video, the two boys are seen taking up positions on the bridge, with one doing a backflip into the Canal ...

At least 48 people including 16 children died in northern Uganda when a bus hit a tractor driving with no lights at night and then a truck, the Red Cross said Saturday.“Evacuation teams are working tirelessly to rescue the injured”, said Ugandan police spokeswoman Emilian Kayima, adding that all three drivers had died.“The death toll is now at 48 including 16 children,” Red Cross spokeswoman Irene Nakasiita told AFP. The accident happened on Friday night in Kiryandongo, ...

London police have seized half a million pounds ($667,000) worth of bitcoin from a prolific computer hacker in a case described as the first of its kind for the 188-year-old department. Cybercrime detectives seized the bitcoin from Grant West, 26, who was sentenced to 10 years and 8 months in prison Friday for attacking some 100 companies worldwide, largely using ‘phishing’ email scams to obtain the financial data. Once he obtained the data, West would then sell the material to ...